[Samba] How can I set a user's password to expire in samba 2.2.3a

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Apr 22 14:48:49 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 23:30, Steven Kurylo wrote:
> vinh_tran at hn.vnn.vn wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >Can anyone help me to set an user's password to expire in Samba 2.2.3a
> >(functioning as PDC) to force them to change password in specified period
> >of time?
> >Samba using the local unix password database (passwd file and shadow file)
> >System: Samba 2.2.3a on RH7 as PDC, 40 users
> >
> Are encrypted passwords turned off?  If so you can use pam to expire the 
> passwords.  Otherwise you're out of luck.

Actually, with 'obey pam restrictions = yes' it works either way. 

Andrew Bartlett

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